These days, we openly talk about virtually everything. So why oh why are some shtum when it comes to menopause? Too many barely whisper the word when it’s a life transition that can be debilitating for so many women, especially at work.
Deborah Garlick is the founder of Henpicked, a community driving culture change around menopause in the UK and beyond. In workshops and at conferences, Henpicked is showing employers how to become ‘menopause-friendly’ to the enormous benefit of their employees' mental health and their corporate wealth.
Notes

Many men keen to learn how to support women through the menopause transition
Roots of Henpicked and how menopause in the workplace mission developed
Resistance to opening up about menopause at work from some women?
Demographic reality of menopausal women living longer and needing/wanting to work into their 60s and 70s
One in four women is “completely lambasted” by menopause and feel their only option is to quit working
Deborah’s workshops help women understand the litany of symptoms they may not have known are linked to menopause
Employers quick to see benefits of becoming ‘menopause-friendly’, retaining and hiring menopausal women
Henpicked is working with (as yet unnamed) UK employer poised to promote itself as ‘menopause-friendly’ in job adverts - an exciting first in UK and perhaps anywhere
UK employers blazing a trail on menopause best practice?
What next for Henpicked?

Links

Henpicked
Menopause in the Workplace
What do working menopausal women
want?
Deborah's book Menopause: The Change for the Better
Deborah on Twitter
Henpicked on Twitter

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